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The past couple weeks I've barely wrote a word of my dissertation between going to SIGCSE, losing my job offer, looking for a new job, and generally being in a quarter-life crisis.
Today I wrote one paragraph. We are so back.
When you go for an on-site job interview in #academia, you usually have to pay for the flight yourself and get reimbursed later.
I was paid $22k last year. I went without $500 for 6 and a half weeks. I got my first ever penalty for insufficient funds when I tried to pay my rent last month. Do the math.
I just lost my job offer yesterday because of the federal funding freeze and DOGE. I'm crushed. This was my dream job in many ways. I'll write more about this later, but for now all I can do is mourn the loss of the future I had earned.
The academic job market is a slog, but I can see the finish line. I'm doing my last on-site job interview tomorrow and once I hear back, I'll decide what the next stage of my life will look like.
Here's a timeline visualization of my academic job search: submitting applications, online interviews, and on-site interviews. I'm currently writing up a full retrospective blog post to go along with it.
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For 2025 specifically, it's the sixth month that will occur twice. Check out June and July on this Chinese calendar. They both contain the start of the 6th lunar month.
You can also see the solar terms labeled with a little "24" icon on the days of the calendar.
Basically, there are 24 solar terms which correspond to the sun's ecliptic, either (jieqi 節氣) or (zhongqi 中氣)
If a month contains no zhongqi then it becomes a leap month. As for numbering the month, you just give it the same number as the previous month.
Edit: I mixed up the sun and the moon when I first drafted this 🤦
The upcoming year will be a leap year in the Chinese calendar, which means that it has an extra month, not just an extra day. In Chinese, the calendar is often referred to as 農曆 (agricultural calendar) because the months while lunar in nature, are pinned to certain solar terms to help plan crop harvests.
This means that unlike in the Gregorian calendar, we can't just slap an extra month at the end bc it would screw up which months are in which season. Instead there's a complicated system...
